In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
BEVERLY CLEARYWe didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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